Comment on Haha yes society is great

evol@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• flamingleg@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  in the 1990s we would gather in giant rooms full of people smoking cigarettes, and we would put small metal discs into machines so we could yell at people for sucking at video games in person and it was a kind of church for many

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  • evol@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We have arcades still ?

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• berg@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is there a time besides maybe the 2010s where people had more disposable income ?

  Yeah, bud.

  It was called 1940-2007.

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• notabot@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What 3rd spaces did we have decades ago that we do not now ?

  It’s not necessarily that they’re entirely gone, but there’s fewer of them, and they may not be as accessible. Off the top of my head, a few examples might be things like:

  • Public libraries
  • Social clubs/Youth clubs
  • Open spaces
  • Skate parks/outdoor gyms

  Some communities are managing to hang on to their third spaces, or even create new ones, but it seems to be very uneven.

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